Το ελληνικό έθνος σε εναν "εχθρικό κόσμο": εθνική αφήγηση και επιστημονικός εθνικισμός

Abstract

This article begins with a brief presentation of the vital role of ethnocentric attitudes and images-stereotypes in international behaviour. In this context the Greek national identity and its acute ethnocentrism are set forth. Greek ethnocentrism cum national identity have more than once influenced Greek international behaviour and foreign policy with unhappy consequences, notably in Greek-Turkish relations and in the so called ‘national issues’. The dominant imagery is one of a hostile, implacably anti- Greek, international attitude with constant anti-Greek conspiracies to boot. This paranoic stance has been influenced and rendered far more legitimate by what is called in the article Greek ‘scientific’ nationalism, a view expounded by a number of highly vocal academics and intellectuals in this country. They are distinguished into four inter-related schools of thought: pure nationalism, religious nationalism (neo- orthodoxy), geopolitical ethnocentrism and national power strategy.